Visual editing

Visual editing

The visual editor shows your document as formatted text, math, figures, and tables, and saves it back as the same .tex, .typ, or .md.

Fonts, spacing, and layout come from your engine and template. For those, see Live preview.

Where to find it
In the editor
The Visual / Source toggle Top right corner of the editor.
Shortcut
Ctrl+K Then "Switch to the visual editor".
The Visual / Source toggle, Visual selected, in the top right corner of the editor
Typing in the visual editor, with math and formatting applied live

What it covers

Articles, papers, essays, and reports. Anything the editor cannot show stays in place as a code chip that you can still edit.

Cross-references

Type @ to reference any equation, figure, table, or citation. Equations keep their numbers, so a reference reads as the number it will print as.

Shortcuts

The usual keys apply: Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+I for italic, Ctrl+M for an inline equation.

More

Each page ends with what differs in Typst and Markdown.